Percussion - Drumming, Beating, Striking

"This book contributes subtly and powerfully to the important project of self-reflexively retheorizing musical analysis. Mowitt knits together the most complex cultural theory with the most influential popular music in surprising and illuminating ways."--Robert Walser, author of "Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music"

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: (Re)percussions

1. The End of Senseless Beating

2. Knocking the Subject

3. Different Strokes for Different Folks

4. Sound of the City: A Musician Is Being Beaten

5. A Drum of One’s Own
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Notes

Works Cited

Index

About the author

John Mowitt

Summary

Presents an attempt to make sense of "senseless beating," to understand how rhythm produces meaning in music and in life. This title examines drumming and beating as musical practice (musicological meaning), as the channelling of violence or shock (sociological meaning), and as a subjective, embodied agent (psychoanalytic meaning).

Product details

• Authors: John Mowitt, Mowitt, John Mowitt
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2002
• EAN: 9780822329046
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2904-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 244 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Kulturwissenschaften, Musikwissenschaft und Musiktheorie